23 February 2015, New York, USA | Brendan Pastor – A special high-level session of the United Nations Security Council debated the relationship between the founding principles of the UN and modern uses of the body's power.

23 September 2016, New York, USA | South-South News — In a piece of welcomed news at the United Nations, the President of Colombia on September 21 announced the end of the civil war in his country and presented to the UN a copy of the peace agreement.

21 March 2017, New York, USA | South-South News — The Security Council has extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan by one year. Expressing serious concern over the potential growth of ISIS — also known as Da’esh — the presence of anti-personnel mines and other explosive remnants of war, and the record numb...

Expressing grave alarm over the continuing crisis in Syria and its toll of over 250,000 dead and 12 million displaced, the Security Council this afternoon affirmed its support for the approach of Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura in moving forward a political solution to the conflict.

28 September 2017, New York, USA | South-South News — Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani told the Security Council on September 25 that the “scourge of terrorism and violent extremism” affecting his country is the product of “a long-standing policy by a neighboring state to keep Afghanistan unstable.” He was referring to ...

4 September 2018, New York, USA | South-South News — Actress and goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),Cate Blanchett, told the Security Council on August 28 that she saw her own children “in the eyes of every refugee child” she met during her visit to Rohingya refugee settlements in Bangladesh adding ...

4 August 2017, New York, USA | South-South News — Special Representative of INTERPOL to the United Nations told the Security Council on August 2 that “preventing foreign terrorist fighters from accessing weapons is of utmost importance.” Emmanuel Roux spoke at the Council session that unanimously adopted a resolution on preventing te...

7 July 2017, New York, USA | South-South News — The Head of the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) on the use of chemical weapons in Syria said his team was “not working in a vacuum” and found itself in a “highly politicized environment” appealing to the Security Council to allow them to perform their work in an impartial, indep...

23 August 2017, New York, USA | South-South News — A United Nations political affairs official called on Palestinian leaders to address the “destructive consequences” of Palestinian divisions, and to reach an agreement allowing “the legitimate Palestinian authorities to take up their responsibilities in Gaza as a step towards the f...

30 August 2018, New York, USA | South-South News — In a briefing to the Security Council on August 28, a senior UN humanitarian official reported “a further serious deterioration of the humanitarian situation” in four governates of Syria “with intense aerial bombardment and shelling.”

Ebola could be “soundly defeated” by the end of the year if the intensity of case detection and contact tracing was sustained, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) told the Security Council today, outlining reforms to improve the organization’s performance and crediting unwavering leadership, especially in Liberia, Guinea a...

1 November 2017, New York, USA | South-South News — UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council today (31 Oct) that children around the world “suffering enormously and unacceptably” by conflict is a source of “global shame.”

5 February 2015, New York, USA | Brendan Pastor – The United Nations General Assembly hall was lit up with an array of colors and traditional Chinese music filled the room while a group of dancers performed a visual saga retelling of the ancient Maritime Silk Roa...

2 August 2017, New York, USA | South-South News — The Chinese ambassador to the UN said if the United States and North Korea, as the “two principle parties” to the issue of denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, “refuse to move towards what is required by the Security Council resolutions,” China’s efforts to resolve the is...

13 May 2015, New York, USA | Brendan Pastor – The United Nation's top human rights advocate on Wednesday accused member states of skirting commitments to improve regulations and enforcement measures against the illicit trade in small arms and ammunitions, citing the lucrative business involved.

24 April 2017, New York, USA | South-South News — The Head of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Syria, Paulo Pinheiro warned of a “slow motion” disaster in Idlib adding the Commission feared the evacuees being concentrated there were “at serious risk about their lives.”

26 July 2018, New York, USA | South-South News — The UN Special Envoy for Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener said the Burmese Government had openly declared its desire to have Rohingya refugees return home, but the return must be “voluntarily, safe, in dignity, and in a sustainable manner.”

16 March 2018, New York, USA | South-South News — The United Kingdom’s Deputy Ambassador, Jonathan Allen, told an Emergency UN Security Council briefing on March 14 that Russia has not provided an explanation for the use of a nerve in the Salisbury assassination attempts of an alleged former Russian spy and his daughter.